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Yeah and had his ID stolen literally a few dozen times
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Most of them promise to do all the legwork for you in terms of disputing incorrect credit file info and getting fraudulent accounts closed and resolved. If they actually do that then the service is worth something because that poo poo can take hours. If they are claiming to prevent it from happening then LOL.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 20:17 |
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My dad has Lifelock, I told him he is dumb but he has NEVER had his identity stolen, so it works. I swear I made this same post in this or another thread like a year ago.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 20:38 |
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Common scam: passing correlation off as causation.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 20:40 |
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therobit posted:Most of them promise to do all the legwork for you in terms of disputing incorrect credit file info and getting fraudulent accounts closed and resolved. If they actually do that then the service is worth something because that poo poo can take hours. If they are claiming to prevent it from happening then LOL. Resolution services (or restoration services, as they're sometimes called) might be worth the money. The actual identity theft protection services are pretty much useless (I saw an ad for Experian identity theft prevention on the TV and lol). Anyway, here's one site's roundup and recommendations on different services.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 20:42 |
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I don't have Lifelock and have NEVER had my identity stolen, maybe it doesn't work?
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 20:43 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Are things like Lifelock and ID protection services generally scams? https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-xE5aF2Z4
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 22:08 |
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Don Gato posted:I've already had all my information compromised twice in two massive data leaks over the past couple of years (OPM leak and the Experian leak), I'm just hoping there is some new, more secure ID system before the next leak inevitably hits. Equifax is going to make a shitload of money off of this breach. They literally have a disincentive from preventing future breaches. Hell, you could probably make an argument that they're legally compelled not to secure themselves from future breaches, because it's not in the best interests of their shareholders, which are the only interests they're supposed to take into consideration. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Just freeze your credit info at each of the credit report places. If you need a loan or car or are applying for credit, find out who they use, lift the freeze and then re-apply it after.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 00:22 |
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Michael Corleone posted:My dad has Lifelock, I told him he is dumb but he has NEVER had his identity stolen, so it works. I swear I made this same post in this or another thread like a year ago. A real life example of the rock that keeps tigers away.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 02:41 |
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Guest2553 posted:I guess sick kids are just an easy mark. Sickness in general is an easy mark, especially some of the bizarre poo poo the body does or that medical science can't explain. The human body is massively complex and sometimes poo poo just goes...wrong. Plus the scammier snake oil salesmen talk about things like "not having enough energy" or "suffering from fatigue." You know, simple poo poo we all deal with periodically like upset stomachs, headaches, malaise, that nonsense. Then they blow it up in to "have you ever felt tired and nauseous? YOU ARE LITERALLY DYING OF <insert nasty sounding thing here> AND ONLY <our product> CAN HELP YOU!!!" Then they fill the bullshit with woo, pseudoscience, and "this study one time said that <thing our product may or may not actually contain> might possibly have some sort of slight chance of reducing your possibility of dying of <terrible thing> so if you buy our overpriced supplement full of <chemical somehow related to thing> you'll become invincible!!!" Plus it doesn't help that some problems just plain aren't curable. Mainstream medicine just isn't perfect and is unlikely to ever be so you get this alt med nonsense that claims it can cure literally everything. It's sad to see people get roped into it because sometimes all they wanted was some sort of hope. Gramps is dying of cancer and the doctor said we can't do anything about it but the chiropractor said if we get his spine twisted around it'll help. Plus this naturopath said that if he chews on this herb 13 hours a day it'll cure it!!! Then when it doesn't they say "well you weren't doing it right." Well...no...you weren't doing medicine right you loving scam artist. I mean we all deal with illness at some point in our lives. It's a fact of existence but because people don't like being sick you can sell "this will prevent you from getting sick because *bullshit bullshit bullshit*" to the right people. Think about, say, Steve Jobs deciding to treat his cancer by eating a poo poo load of oranges.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 04:43 |
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Thanatosian posted:they're legally compelled not to secure themselves from future breaches, because it's not in the best interests of their shareholders, which are the only interests they're supposed to take into consideration. This is an urban myth. Alternatively, you could say it is a fantastic scan that corporations have played on the general population.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 08:55 |
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I think the true value in a service like Lifelock is having someone to point the finger at when your identity does get stolen.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 09:08 |
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Namarrgon posted:Alternatively, you could say it is a fantastic scan that corporations have played on the general population.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 19:28 |
My friend recently told me about a situation her ex boyfriend faced: hes a small time drug dealer/user and on occasion prints out :20:s and :10:s to scam his dealer with. Apparently, when he was printing out a :20: or something from a google image search, there was an extra message from 'some government agency' (she doesn't remember which, but if it were legit obviously the secret service?) saying to cease and desist. Another print out, and it said something to the effect of "We know who you are and where you are", and on a third print out it told them the city they were in and described him, my friend and another friend of theirs. I call bullshit on it actually being the government, though, cause why the gently caress would they use the loving printer and not knock on the door especially since they'd have to send someone out to surveil the place, right? My theory is someone connected to the wifi printer he was using for fun, and used some sort of exploit to see what was printing, saw it was money, and decided to gently caress with them by modifying what the printer spooler had or something.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:My friend recently told me about a situation her ex boyfriend faced he said she said
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 13:00 |
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No way it was the Secret Service, . Their MO is to trace counterfeit money to its source and then they show up in person. They take even small quantities seriously. They don’t toy with perps through their printers. Someone who knows your friend’s BF was loving with him.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 13:05 |
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Drug users getting paranoid and seeing things? Nah, can't be.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 13:32 |
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Image editing software, photocopiers and printers will all tell you to stop if you try to make currency. The rest of the story is likely grown in the retelling.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 14:48 |
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This is one of the ways in which printers and scanners etc. detect that it's money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:My friend recently told me about a situation her ex boyfriend faced: hes a small time drug dealer/user and on occasion prints out :20:s and :10:s to scam his dealer with. Apparently, when he was printing out a :20: or something from a google image search, there was an extra message from 'some government agency' (she doesn't remember which, but if it were legit obviously the secret service?) saying to cease and desist. Another print out, and it said something to the effect of "We know who you are and where you are", and on a third print out it told them the city they were in and described him, my friend and another friend of theirs. I call bullshit on it actually being the government, though, cause why the gently caress would they use the loving printer and not knock on the door especially since they'd have to send someone out to surveil the place, right? or your idiot friend clicked on the first link for 'counterfeit 20s lol' E: ^ EURion is a thing, but not this thing
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 17:47 |
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Man, my take away from that story wasn't "your friend was an idiot for being a bad counterfeiter" but "your friend was an idiot for passing off fake cash to drug dealers."
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 17:48 |
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Gonna split this off into it's own post. I used to work for a place that cleaned computers from virii etc for money by walking them through installing our VNC fork. Basically grandma clicked the wrong link then called us. I worked there when everyone and their Eastern European brother was using Cryptolocker as payload. Most of the time, it was hilarious ('Attention: The FBI has been notified that <webcam output> is looking at the pornos, send a prepaid to <extremely foreign address>.') Sometimes the threat would even claim they were looking at child porn. This is fine, your files are loving gone but if you're stupid enough to pay my company $100+ to probably not get all the malware out, that's cool. The most hosed up variant actually downloaded child porn and displayed that as 'hey look what you did'. Our policy was to nope the gently caress out, except not every computer with symptoms was actually infected with a file encrypting virus, and our standard process when confronted by 'LOL look what U did!!!!' on boot was to hold power button and then mash F8 until Safe Mode with Networking. Cue a much younger goatsestretchgoals remoting into a customer computer and being confronted with...something disturbing.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 17:59 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:Man, my take away from that story wasn't "your friend was an idiot for being a bad counterfeiter" but "your friend was an idiot for passing off fake cash to drug dealers." Yeah holy poo poo. Addicts do some really dumb poo poo when they are chasing the dragon.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Gonna split this off into it's own post. This poo poo happened to me. It certainly wasn't child porn but I got the "FBI is coming for you" pop up during a normal FAP session and the browser basically froze. A hard reboot and a malware scan took care of it but I won't lie. poo poo stopped me in my tracks for a brief moment. Not that I thought I'd get locked up but more worrying about WTF I'd done to my cpu. There are porn sites that have Traci Lords scenes for instance and you never loving know. But I think this poo poo plays more off the "Oh, poo poo. My wife and family will find my jacking habits" on a shared laptop and genuine ignorance about how to remove the malware more than any real belief that the feds are coming to arrest you.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 20:05 |
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Let me tell you about the time I was still a teen, downloading a bunch of poo poo like you do, and at 2am a police riot van turns up outside my house with its lights flashing. Turns out a friend from a fairly concerned and affluent enough family hadn’t gone home after some surgery, and his parents got the wrong kid he mentioned he was hanging out with that day.
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therobit posted:Yeah holy poo poo. Addicts do some really dumb poo poo when they are chasing the dragon. Yep. My friend broke up with the guy, thank loving god, cause he was bad loving news all the way. She said she was there for it, though, and -says- it wasn't a dream lol
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 00:41 |
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Anyone who has handled even a moderate amount of cash should be instantly able to tell that a bill (probably printed on standard computer paper in this case) isn't legit just by holding it up to the light Unless the drug dealer is as dumb as them I'm pretty sure he could spot the bill from a mile away, and he should be able to close his eyes and feel the fake one easily
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 09:18 |
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stringball posted:Anyone who has handled even a moderate amount of cash should be instantly able to tell that a bill (probably printed on standard computer paper in this case) isn't legit just by holding it up to the light Yeah anyone who handles lots of cash can tell without looking. If they crumple it up enough that you can't, you give that bill a second look. Unless the distributor is on his first day on the job, he knows what to look for because someone has already tried it and whoever he works for is probably not very tolerant of those types ofmistakes.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 19:14 |
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The "Campaign for the Environment" jobs get mentioned yet? They have legions of 16-35 year olds collect money and signatures from folks, ostensibly for environmental causes, which then go to... paying organisers to get people to collect more money? I'm not sure where the environment comes into play. There's always a quota to reach, as if we could EVER bribe politicians more than oil etc companies. In America, presumably higher concentrations around urban population centres.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 02:35 |
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Should I help defraud the U.S. federal government. What’s the worst that could happen? https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7rzw8v/i_went_in_for_a_job_interview_and_it_escalated/ quote:Some background info. I have little business knowledge, and I am a OEF Disabled Army Veteran. I live in the U.S., specifically Illinois.
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Platystemon posted:Should I help defraud the U.S. federal government. What’s the worst that could happen? He keeps talking himself into "well, maybe this one is legit"
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Here's a good article to read before you get the next call from a recruiter who sounds like he's calling you from a call center in India:quote:As competition for jobs among India’s youth intensifies, the offer of a lucrative career in a call centre can be difficult to turn down – even if the work turns out to be operating a scam. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/02/the-scammers-gaming-indias-overcrowded-job-market
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Platystemon posted:Should I help defraud the U.S. federal government. What’s the worst that could happen? Huh. It may go against the spirit of the regulations, but if it's technically fulfilling the requirements for a contract, then the his little corporation would be as 'legit' as any number of private contractors for the military.
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therobit posted:Yeah anyone who handles lots of cash can tell without looking. If they crumple it up enough that you can't, you give that bill a second look. Unless the distributor is on his first day on the job, he knows what to look for because someone has already tried it and whoever he works for is probably not very tolerant of those types ofmistakes. I tried to buy weed with a fake note once (i didn't print it out myself or some poo poo, someone paid at my parents business with it, we didn't realise it was fake until i tried to use it somewhere else). Can confirm that my dealer called me back about ten minutes later all "Yeah man I can tell this is fake you know". TBF he didnt stab me and he even gave me the fake note back for a real one so it went quite well considering
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:52 |
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You can almost guarantee that a drug dealer is going to be better at spotting a fake than most cashiers. Also it's probably best not to try copy a plan detailed on both Beavis and Butthead, and by the junkies in the first season of The Wire.
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:I tried to buy weed with a fake note once (i didn't print it out myself or some poo poo, someone paid at my parents business with it, we didn't realise it was fake until i tried to use it somewhere else). Can confirm that my dealer called me back about ten minutes later all "Yeah man I can tell this is fake you know". TBF he didnt stab me and he even gave me the fake note back for a real one so it went quite well considering While there may be some overlap, "weed dealer" and "drug dealer" are generally two very different things.
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Thanatosian posted:While there may be some overlap, "weed dealer" and "drug dealer" are generally two very different things. Can confirm.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 01:37 |
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In Oregon "weed dealer" can mean a store in a strip mall.
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I've noticed whenever a big concert is announced, immediately there are tickets up on StubHub for silly money in specific blocks/rows. Anyone know the specifics of what I'm sure is a scam? They're before any pre-sale so the only way I can see them being legit is if they're employees of the venue or similar who know they have allocations in certain places. Buying from Ticketmaster is such an rear end, it's not as if they can even rush in at the beginning of a pre-sale and buy these specific seats, as you get offered tickets rather than choose them. Doesn't StubHub require you to even upload the tickets/proof before listing even these days? It's quite fun snagging seats straight away and looking at the ludicrous prices people set for the same block, mind.
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